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Far-Out Friday:  Honeymoon In The Corn Field

Far-Out Friday: Honeymoon In The Corn Field

Their May-December marriage made headlines in early June of 1946, right along with worries over sky-rocketing milk prices (up one cent per quart!) and possible meat and bread shortages.  One newspaper article noted that mothers were thinking about feeding their...
Far-Out Friday:  Old Rip the Horned Toad

Far-Out Friday: Old Rip the Horned Toad

Although the term “cornerstone” is referenced several times in the Bible, the exact origin of a ceremony laying a building cornerstone and placing items in it  (a “time capsule”) is vague, but perhaps began to be practiced as many as five thousand years ago.  Time...
Far-Out Friday:  “Passing Strange”

Far-Out Friday: “Passing Strange”

Clarence King, a Yale-educated geologist, surveyed the American West and served as the first director of the United States Geological Survey.  His close friend Henry Adams said that he had “that combination of physical energy, social standing, mental scope and...
Far-Out Friday:  The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872

Far-Out Friday: The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872

This story, without a doubt, has to be one of the most cunning and crafty hoaxes ever perpetrated on a group of learned men which included bankers, financiers and mining engineers.  It reads more like a Hollywood script than actual fact, but it’s all true and quite...
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